July 2015: Article
Linda Jacobsen, vice president of U.S. Programs at PRB, has been named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the nation's preeminent professional statistical society. She will be honored at a ceremony August 11 at the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle, Washington.

July 2015: Event
PRB and the Wilson Center gathered an expert panel who shared their experiences and advice on positioning population and family planning as development priorities. Watch the live recording of the event.

July 2015: Report
Results from Kenya's 2014 Demographic and Health Survey reveal that facets of adolescent sexual and reproductive health are improving but that some areas need further attention and work.

July 2015: Article
Policymakers in Kenya's Embu and Bungoma counties recently showed their support for family planning by approving firm budget commitments in the 2016 fiscal year. Their actions marked success for PRB's work with a local partner on bolstering family planning policies in the country.

July 2015: Event
The July 2015 White House Conference on Aging coincides with the 50th anniversaries of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Older Americans Act, and the 80th anniversary of the Social Security Act. PRB's reports, articles, and interviews explore many key Conference themes, including healthy aging, retirement security, and long-term services and supports.

July 2015: Article
Women live longer than men in the United States and in nearly every country in the world. But in the United States and many other developed countries, this gender gap is narrowing, resulting in an increase in the number of men, relative to women, surviving to old age.

July 2015: Article
In 1989, on the first World Population Day designated by the United Nations, there were 5.2 billion people living on Earth. On July 11, 2015, we will be 7.336 billion, according to calculations by PRB.